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Unions Celebrate May Day Collectively

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Citing extreme position of violent conflict and aiming long term goal of trade union solidairty, workers of Nepal celebrated May Day 2005 collectively. With Theme; "Democracy for Peace & Development, Trade Union Rights for workers in all Profession" some 10,000 workers in Kathmandu Valley rally in major parts of the city. The May Day Joint Celebration Committee- 2005; which includes recognised National Centres- GEFONT, NTUC, DECONT (with their 59 plus affiliated national federations), a loose network of various professional - PAPAD (Professional Alliance for Peace and Democracy, which includes Federation of Nepalese Journalists, Nepal Bar Association, Nepal University Teachers Association, Teachers Union-Nepal, Nepal Engineers Association and Nepal Medical Association), Network of various employees associations- CoNEP (Confederation of Nepalese Professionals, which includes 2non-affiliated trade union federations; EI affiliated NNTA and government employees) and almost all Nepali Affiliates of GUFs (There are 37 Federation & unions) had led & coordinated the rally.

This year's May Day was widely supported by the international trade Union movement. The General Secretary of ICFTU-APRO N. Suzuki himself was one of the leading figures in the joint rally. The representatives from the Seven GUFs namely ICEM-HQ, (Elizabeth Cotton), TWARO-ITGLWF (Akiko Gono), IFBWW-South Asia (Rajeev Sharma), IMF-South Asia (T. Dyvadheenam), ITF-South Asia (Sangam Tripathi), PSI- South Asia (Kannan) and UNI (Andriana) were others international delegates in the rally.

The country director of ILO Ms. Leyla Tegmo- Reddy and senior workers specialist of ILO-SAAT Mr. Pong Sul Ahn were other participating dignitaries of the workers rally. Besides, two senior leaders from national trade union centres from India Bro. Guman Singh, the Organizing Secretary of INTUC and Dy General Secretary of HMS R A Mittal were also the participants.

May Day was also observed about 2 dozens major places in through out the country.